Conductor L. Hubbard and myself as we prepare to run the last train out of the Smart Paper (formerly Champion) mill. The first train came in Nov. 1898. Caboose in tow, GMRY 783, was restored to it... (more)

IHB 8738 and 2 mates slowly hammer the Santa Fe diamond in McCook, IL with a transfer freight in August of 1988. 8738 was sold to Larry's Truck Electric in 2003.

A MICHIGAN RAILROAD CLUB fantrip from Detroit to Jackson, Michigan has stopped at the Pontiac Depot to pick up a few extra passengers. At the far right you can see the Pontiac station. To the le... (more)

Ex-West Virginia Northern No. 51, still in WVN paint, rests on a stub track at Patriot Coal in Albright, WV. No. 51 was presumably sold to Patriot when the WVN ceased operations in 1991.

Three of Indiana Harbor Belt's NW2 switchers lead an OSHA Orange caboose west through Dolton. Tom Golden photo.

Ideal Cement's NW2 sits in the same spot as it has for 10 years, in Cañon City, CO.

It is a pleasant morning in Abilene as Southern Switching 1865 sits outside the company yard office.

Living its last full year as a Chesapeake & Ohio locomotive, C&O NW2 5072 is working on the Baltimore & Annapolis at Lansdowne, Maryland. In another year, the1949 EMD will be sold to the Dunn-Erwi... (more)

While shoving into Hill 6, the leading tank car drops off the track as the trailing truck somehow picks the point. This area was a constant head ache. I was employed with this RR when this image w... (more)

Pausing along the river track in a dense fog after pulling the 2 mill in the morning.

Languishing in the woods waiting for CSX and a trip to Larry's 7 months after shut down.

Philadelphia, Bethlehem & New England NW2 24 drills a cut of cars between the two yard towers in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Bethlehem Steel switching road barely made it beyond Bethlehem’s bor... (more)

Crossing the Chicago River

Left to rot until being scrapped on site in 2014.

A Roger Puta Photograph